Francisco Castillo Fajardo

Francisco Castillo Fajardo (17 December 1642-1716) was a general of the Kingdom of Spain.

Biography
Fajardo was raised to a Spanish aristocratic family, and his brother was killed in the War of the Grand Alliance. In 1693 he failed to resist the Siege of Charleroi by the Kingdom of France but in 1698 he succeeded in holding Oran against the Ottoman Empire. From 1698 to 1702 he was Governor of Ceuta, a Spanish island off the coast of North Africa. The latter year he returned to Spain and defended Cadiz against the Habsburgs during the War of the Spanish Succession but he failed to take Gibraltar in 1705 and lost at Almanar in 1710.